Hi Mike,

Perhaps this section in the documentation will help:
http://docs.factorcode.org/content/article-looping-combinators.html


Regards,
Dave

On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Michael Clagett <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi ---
>
> Finally getting around to developing my first serious Factor code and I have
> a quick question.  I'm a Forth programmer (although of late it has been
> mostly my own bastardized version of Forth).  I'm thinking of one immediate
> use of Combinators as a way of eliminating some of the unsightly procedural
> code that lives in the kind of Forth function I would write inside of, say,
> a Begin While Repeat loop.
>
> But if what I would have wanted to do with my loop is loop through every
> item in a collection of some sort until some condition was true and at that
> point exit the loop early, is there a way to do this using Combinators?  Are
> there versions of the primary ones that will operate on the target sequence
> only until a condition is reached?  I will of course peruse the
> documentation, but I thought I would just ask in case someone could steer me
> there more quickly (and in case some other newbie has the same question).
>
> Thanks much.
>
> Mike
>
>
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